Hacker News Highlights

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 6, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:18) - There were BGP anomalies during the Venezuela blackout (01:27) - Databases in 2025: A Year in Review (02:47) - Try to take my position: The best promotion advice I ever got (03:58) - Pebble Round 2 (04:56) - I switched from VSCode to Zed (06:14) - Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers, cutting memory 75% (07:20) - enclose.horse (08:10) - Show HN: DoNotNotify – Log and intelligently block notifications on Android (09:07) - Welcome to Gas Town (10:16) - Show HN: Tailsnitch – A security auditor for Tailscale (11:10) - Outro There were BGP anomalies during the Venezuela blackouthttps://loworbitsecurity.com/radar/radar16/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46504963Databases in 2025: A Year in Reviewhttps://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pavlo/blog/2026/01/2025-databases-retrospective.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46496103Try to take my position: The best promotion advice I ever gothttps://andrew.grahamyooll.com/blog/Try-to-Take-My-Position/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46466027Pebble Round 2https://repebble.com/blog/pebble-round-2-the-most-stylish-pebble-everhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46465335I switched from VSCode to Zedhttps://tenthousandmeters.com/blog/i-switched-from-vscode-to-zed/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46498735Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers, cutting memory 75%https://brave.com/privacy-updates/36-adblock-memory-reduction/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46501894enclose.horsehttps://enclose.horse/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46509211Show HN: DoNotNotify – Log and intelligently block notifications on Androidhttps://donotnotify.com/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46499646Welcome to Gas Townhttps://steve-yegge.medium.com/welcome-to-gas-town-4f25ee16dd04https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46458936Show HN: Tailsnitch – A security auditor for Tailscalehttps://github.com/Adversis/tailsnitchhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46501137

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 5, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:20) - Lessons from 14 years at Google (01:26) - The unbearable joy of sitting alone in a café (02:33) - Web development is fun again (03:44) - Street Fighter II, the World Warrier (2021) (04:54) - Claude Code On-the-Go (06:00) - Show HN: Terminal UI for AWS (06:59) - I charged $18k for a Static HTML Page (2019) (08:06) - Why does a least squares fit appear to have a bias when applied to simple data? (09:16) - Show HN: An interactive guide to how browsers work (10:18) - During Helene, I just wanted a plain text website (11:25) - Outro Lessons from 14 years at Googlehttps://addyosmani.com/blog/21-lessons/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46488819The unbearable joy of sitting alone in a caféhttps://candost.blog/the-unbearable-joy-of-sitting-alone-in-a-cafe/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46488355Web development is fun againhttps://ma.ttias.be/web-development-is-fun-again/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46488576Street Fighter II, the World Warrier (2021)https://fabiensanglard.net/sf2_warrier/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46488278Claude Code On-the-Gohttps://granda.org/en/2026/01/02/claude-code-on-the-go/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46491486Show HN: Terminal UI for AWShttps://github.com/huseyinbabal/tawshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46491749I charged $18k for a Static HTML Page (2019)https://idiallo.com/blog/18000-dollars-static-web-pagehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46469877Why does a least squares fit appear to have a bias when applied to simple data?https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/674129/why-does-a-linear-least-squares-fit-appear-to-have-a-bias-when-applied-to-simplehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46491821Show HN: An interactive guide to how browsers workhttps://howbrowserswork.com/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46488654During Helene, I just wanted a plain text websitehttps://sparkbox.com/foundry/helene_and_mobile_web_performancehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46494734

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 4, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:19) - Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time (01:34) - The Most Popular Blogs of Hacker News in 2025 (02:45) - The C3 Programming Language (03:52) - The suck is why we're here (05:17) - Neural Networks: Zero to Hero (06:09) - Swift on Android: Full Native App Development Now Possible (07:20) - Corroded: Illegal Rust (08:27) - KDE onboarding is good now (09:28) - Exploring Dithering on Spectra 6-color E-Ink Displays (10:34) - Take One Small Step (11:36) - Outro Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over timehttps://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/1926661#graphhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46482345The Most Popular Blogs of Hacker News in 2025https://refactoringenglish.com/blog/2025-hn-top-5/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46478377The C3 Programming Languagehttps://c3-lang.orghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46478647The suck is why we're herehttps://nik.art/the-suck-is-why-were-here/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46482877Neural Networks: Zero to Herohttps://karpathy.ai/zero-to-hero.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46485090Swift on Android: Full Native App Development Now Possiblehttps://docs.swifdroid.com/app/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46483023Corroded: Illegal Rusthttps://github.com/buyukakyuz/corrodedhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46483531KDE onboarding is good nowhttps://rabbitictranslator.com/kde-onboarding/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46483432Exploring Dithering on Spectra 6-color E-Ink Displayshttps://myembeddedstuff.com/e-ink-spectra-6-colorhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46440037Take One Small Stephttps://thinkhuman.com/take-one-small-step/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46482107

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 3, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:20) - Publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere (01:31) - 2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop (02:40) - Daft Punk Easter Egg in the BPM Tempo of Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger? (03:56) - IPv6 just turned 30 and still hasn't taken over the world (05:11) - Clicks Communicator (06:12) - Assorted less(1) tips (07:16) - Show HN: Website that plays the lottery every second (08:08) - Jank Lang Hit Alpha (08:58) - Fighting Fire with Fire: Scalable Oral Exams (10:10) - Punkt. Unveils MC03 Smartphone (11:20) - Outro Publish on your own site, syndicate elsewherehttps://indieweb.org/POSSE#https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=464686002026 will be my year of the Linux desktophttps://xeiaso.net/notes/2026/year-linux-desktop/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46471199Daft Punk Easter Egg in the BPM Tempo of Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger?https://www.madebywindmill.com/tempi/blog/hbfs-bpm/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46469577IPv6 just turned 30 and still hasn't taken over the worldhttps://www.theregister.com/2025/12/31/ipv6_at_30/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46465327Clicks Communicatorhttps://www.clicksphone.com/en/communicatorhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46467057Assorted less(1) tipshttps://blog.thechases.com/posts/assorted-less-tips/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46464120Show HN: Website that plays the lottery every secondhttps://lotteryeverysecond.lffl.me/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46471171Jank Lang Hit Alphahttps://github.com/jank-lang/jankhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46468517Fighting Fire with Fire: Scalable Oral Examshttps://www.behind-the-enemy-lines.com/2025/12/fighting-fire-with-fire-scalable-oral.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46467677Punkt. Unveils MC03 Smartphonehttps://www.punkt.ch/blogs/news/punkt-unveils-mc03https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46466364

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 2, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:17) - Linux is good now (01:21) - A website to destroy all websites (02:34) - Bluetooth Headphone Jacking: A Key to Your Phone [video] (03:41) - Show HN: OpenWorkers – Self-hosted Cloudflare workers in Rust (04:49) - Cameras and Lenses (2020) (05:48) - Finland detains ship and its crew after critical undersea cable damaged (06:57) - I rebooted my social life (08:04) - Python numbers every programmer should know (09:15) - Why users cannot create Issues directly (10:20) - 2025 Letter (11:36) - Outro Linux is good nowhttps://www.pcgamer.com/software/linux/im-brave-enough-to-say-it-linux-is-good-now-and-if-you-want-to-feel-like-you-actually-own-your-pc-make-2026-the-year-of-linux-on-your-desktop/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46457770A website to destroy all websiteshttps://henry.codes/writing/a-website-to-destroy-all-websites/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46457784Bluetooth Headphone Jacking: A Key to Your Phone [video]https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-bluetooth-headphone-jacking-a-key-to-your-phonehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46453204Show HN: OpenWorkers – Self-hosted Cloudflare workers in Rusthttps://openworkers.com/introducing-openworkershttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46454693Cameras and Lenses (2020)https://ciechanow.ski/cameras-and-lenses/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46455872Finland detains ship and its crew after critical undersea cable damagedhttps://www.cnn.com/2025/12/31/europe/finland-estonia-undersea-cable-ship-detained-intlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46456797I rebooted my social lifehttps://takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/this-might-be-oversharinghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46453114Python numbers every programmer should knowhttps://mkennedy.codes/posts/python-numbers-every-programmer-should-know/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46454470Why users cannot create Issues directlyhttps://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/issues/3558https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=464603192025 Letterhttps://danwang.co/2025-letter/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46454413